Fuck that. Load the B-52s, all of them, with live hogs and carpet bomb Mecca. Then let them know next islamic inspired/claim or suspected terror attack anywhere that harms 1 US citizen will result in the nuclear annihilation of Mecca. See the towel heads pray to the big radioactive hole in the ground.
Ok, your solution targets not only the wrong country, but the wrong sect of Islam and does nothing to the Iranians except give them major status with aligning all other Islamic nations against us after the main person standing in their way is nuked. Essentially, you've come up with a plan similar to threatening the Southern Baptist fundamentalists by nuking the Vatican or Jerusalem. For a follow up, you could fight socialism by banning all social networking sites like Facebook too.
I've found it depends on your target demographic. If you are looking at business people, IE6 is still in the ballgame. Offices are still lagging behind in their conversion to modern browsers. This is probably because the IT staff just doesn't care.
No, I can tell you the IT staff probably does care. Do you have any idea how much work goes into making sure that any new hardware can still run XP and IE6 alone? Then we actually have to install it, make images, and support it. It would be much easier for the IT staff to go with what is current that keep legacy programs around. Instead, it is usually driven by corporate need for IE6, usually by some application that requires it. It may be in house or it may be vendor supported but either way its probably a lot of money to upgrade. Plus, business usually just doesn't want to spend more money just to be up to date. Sure, replacing your computer once every five years sounds good, but when dealing with hundreds or thousands of users whose old computer are still working and allowing them to do their job, a yearly refresh of 20% is a lot of money that nobody wants to spend without a good reason. Many businesses are still buying computers for the first time in certain roles. They are comfortable in buying new computers to replace old ones that break, but they aren't in the business practice of replacing computers that are currently working just fine.
Not if they have any economic sense in their heads. Unless the aliens have some sort of magic infinite energy source or teleportation device, the cost of transporting an invasion fleet to another solar system would be orders of magnitude higher than the value of anything they could possibly gain from Earth. And if they do have an infinite energy source or teleportation device, then they could use those inventions to provide for their needs directly, without leaving their home.
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
I'm sure the Native Americans could have made a similar arguement about the ridiculousness of and invasion fleet rowing their canoes across the Atlantic to attack them. That's the thing about future technology, you really aren't sure what it is capable of. We really don't know much about the universe we live in. What we normally think of as the universe in matter and energy is less than 5% of what's there. The rest we can barely even detect let alone determine what it is and what physics it operates under. For even all our talk about wormholes, hyperspace, Alcubierre drives, we're probably really just a bunch of savages trying to determine how lash our canoes together to make a jumbojet when talking about future tech. The only real thing that our current physics tells us is that they cannot accelerate through the speed of light, and that the minimum energy to reach here is the difference in potential energies between their starting and ending locations. If they're coming from the galactic rim towards the core, it could be a free ride if they do develop some sort of teleportation.
As to why they might decide to invade us. Who knows? They're alien. Their reasoning and decision making process might not even make sense to us. A planet with an atmosphere in a nice liquid water zone around a star may be enough of a reason. If compatible, it certainly make for a cheap living space. Much cheaper than trying to build enough space ships to house as many people as could live on a planet. There are also cultural, religious, and aesthetic reason they might decide to invade. Hell, they might just want to open up markets and engage us as equal trade partners. That alone would probably cause enough change to be equivilant to invading.
Why? Seriously, I would like to know. What would you use it for? A very large music player? A web browser that has no keyboard and likely is only useable in your house where you (presumably) have a desktop/laptop. Movies might be a good idea for it... I really don't know what this is supposed to be used for.
No, it's a web browser with no keyboard that can be used on a bus, train, plane, coffee shop, or at work. It's small and light enough that although it's too big to carry around in your pocket, it will fit in your hand or book bag without taking up too much weight or space. iPhone is fine but it really is too small for viewing and interacting with many web pages that don't have a mobile version. Carrying around a laptop all the time is just a recipe for a tired shoulder. Then, I'm betting the killer app is movies. I'd be surprised if the demonstration at it's announcement doesn't include NetFlix Play on Demand movies. Add in a book reader too. Sure, it might not be as good as a Kindle for long term reading of novels, but I bet it will be good enough for most people. I'm also hoping for some sort of electronic magazine service. None of those may not be it, but I bet that when they do display it, there will be some killer app that Apple will have also built for it.
How long will it take before Dell, HP and the like copy this tablet innovation?
Last Wednesday. HP revealed their new slate computer and had Ballmer present it for the keynote at CES in Las Vegas. MS and HP have presented tablets every year it seems like, but this is the first time they have really presented a slate computer as the showcase. I think they miss the point though. Their OS is basically Win7 running with a touch screen. I don't think it will fly any higher than previous tablets which is to say a few niche corporate jobs and a few interested users.
I think Apple will do something besides just present a slate computer running OS X and say here you go. My guess is for basically a larger iPod touch and probably running a similar OS and UI. Rather than a full computer replacement, I think it will be more of a video and book reader. Besides the App store, I bet there are neat new killer apps, probably with Netflix and Google doing easy video and book downloads with an interface built for the UI. With all the talk of being an electronic magazine reader instead of books (probably due to the lack of epaper), I also wouldn't be surprised if they also launched some sort of electronic magazine subscription and presentation service. That's something I've been waiting for, being able to get my magazine subscriptions in a nice and readable electronic form which is a problem with hardware as much as software. It won't replace your phone, or your laptop, but it might make a good substitution for your laptop on trips as something to take, broswe the web, read, play games, and download photos to. If it does allow you to install regular OS X apps too such as MS Office or Aperture, it would really fill in that roll.
If Apple hasn't even announced the damned thing yet, then why are we calling it the "iSlate"? Has slashdot really sunken so far as to making up product names for products that don't even exist? What is wrong with just saying "speculated Apple tablet"?
Because Apple has trademarked the name "iSlate". They did this through a dummy company they set up. They also aquired "islate.com". They may not end up using it but they have shown interest enough to pay money to make it theirs. This is BTW the same thing they did when reserving the name "iPhone". If nothing else, to give a name in the rumors that such trademarks create.
That's quite inaccurate. Tank and Damage Dealer are the same close-range combat class, while ranged combat is missing from the list.
Nope. A Rogue can DPS as melee, but can't tank as they don't really have the armor or hit points let alone the aggro gaining abilities. Likewise, my pet as a hunter can tank but doesn't do nearly as much damage as a Melee DPSer should. Sure, it does some damage, but not as much as when I run up and hit stuff in melee too. It does have the ability to hold aggro and absorb the damage, allowing me to do the DPS.
What do you mean slightly? You can purchase tier 9 items for every slot of your character with badges.
Even though you can get badges, you still have to grind the same dungeons to get enough badges for all your gear. I think he is looking for a situation where you are able to get all your gear without having to duplicate runs on instances.
After having used Linux and Windows and OS X systems for years, OS X does this right. Yes there are "hundreds of conf files". But they are not scattered around, they are all in ~/Library/Preferences.
Hmmm, the mac sounds like it has a similar solution, but that isnt much different than the windows registry. I'm wondering how its better?
Well, it typically means that one bad file does not screw the entire computer. I haven't had issues with any OSX prefs becoming corrupted, but if it is similar to Mac OS 7-9, if you delete the corrupted file, the program in questions sees that there is no file and simply creates a new fresh one. You could go into your old MacOS Prefs folder and delete everything. The Mac would work just fine* and if any corruption in those files was causing problems, it would be gone. Sure everything was reset to defaults, but changing those is usually a minor issue. Let's see you go to the Window's registry and delete everything and continue working.
*Not quote true. Some 3rd party apps used the pref file to store registration keys so you'd have to enter them in again, or back them up because the key was specific to a random number that was created at the time of creation of the pref file.
We've been down this way back during the star wars days and trying to shoot down missiles. Any sort of energy that is released in the term of a second or so is useless against anything but stationary targets where you can assume you will hit the same point for that entire second. Bullets on the other hand expend their energy in a range of ten thousandths of a second. Until lasers or other beam weapons can deliver enough energy in a short enough amount of time similar to a bullet or supersonic missile, they simply will not make good weapons. Just make your missiles spin and any energy hitting them will be over a very large area. Similarly, the energy given for a 9mm hitting a human target that is moving around will be affected less than the firer of a 9mm who will probably absorb that energy over a shorter time and less area due to recoil.
The moon is the answer for all our future resource-problems..
You were probably going for a +5 Funny, but in case you weren't, there are various issues with that solution. First being that even if the moon were made of uranium (or oil), it would probably be too expensive to ship it in and out of our respective gravity wells to earth. Second, the moon seems to be pretty much mostly a large non-metallic mantel with a small non-active metallic core. Chances are that the moon simply isn't nearly mineral rich as the earth. Three, the moon is a really harsh environment, especially for the machinery that we would need to mine anything. Without weathering, every little bit of dust is a sharp jagged piece of sand paper that will wear down equipment fairly fast.
All in all, the moon probably isn't a good source of materials, even water. For energy, we'd be better harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it back to earth. For materials, especially metallic elements such as uranium, we'd be better off mining asteroids.
I suspect that his 24" iMac will play the games just fine. The actual problem is that they wanted to turn it into a "tv/media center" and it would not output with the resolution that he wanted. He then wanted to change the video card bur couldn't because he bought a model with an integrated video card and no expansion ports because the design criteria gave those up for a smaller all-in-one design. He would have had the same issue if he had bought an HP Touchsmart 9000 series or many other WinTel all-in-one device.
He is fuming with Apple because he would really like to play a few modern games but the video card of this model cannot be upgraded. (He didn't research that possibility as he never thought it possible to get a desktop system for 2500 Euros with a crappy portable MXM video without the option to upgrade.)
*DING* Your friend didn't do research and ended up buying the wrong thing for what they wanted. Then they had to go and spend all that money to do it again to do exactly what they wanted. Now he's pissed at the maker of the first item who listed the specs for him to check. I bet he checked the specs the second time around, or are they happy with WinTel because they could just buy random off the shelf components and combine them to a machine that worked for them by default?
Since this is/.
Car Analogy:
This is like a person buying an off road kitted Unimog and then being upset that they can't get above 55mph when on the highway for long road trips. Then going out and buying a fast car and being pissed at the Unimog makers because it doesn't do what it wasn't built to do.
The exposure rate is thought to have been approximately 0.005 Gy to 0.058 Gy per second. If children tried on several pairs of shoes per visit it was posited that they could be exposed to as much as 0.1 Gy to 1.16 Gy. In fact, experiments indicated that radiation could exceed 1 microGy per hour as far as 10 feet away from the machine.
To put this into context, the Gy (gray), is the amount of absorbed radiation. One gray is typically the point where physical effects are felt, usually in a burn to the skin. 5 Gy over the entire body is considered a lethal dose.
Without commenting on the validity of the analogy, I for one found that as I get older I increasingly realize my parents were usually right.
I on the other hand, often find that my parents were very often wrong. They meant well, and their advise was in my best interest, but in many cases, while it would have been the correct advise for them while they were growing up, it simply did not apply my experiences twenty years later because conditions had changed. One case being getting a job. My father was a company man whose advise was for me to get into a company, give them loyalty and work for them for the rest of my life like he did. Needless to say, this did not reflect the job situation I found myself in, especially in the computer industry during the dot-boom and dot-bust. He also found out about the new reality when his company threatened to outsource his department for the last five years he was working there and finally did but luckily close enough to his retirement that he could get a nice package. I won't even go into when he yelled at me for not quitting my cushy summer 9-5 pizza job to instead go work for McDonald's because he thought that was a respectable company.
Of course, I was the good kid that always did what my parents told me to usually. However, looking back, there are lots of times I think I should have been more rebelious and realize that their advise wasn't the best and should have done what I wanted. Some was stuff like my career, but also, I should have skipped more high school, partied more, and otherwise did more of the things other kids were doing rather than be a good kid. Experienced missed.
I can't dispute you on usage, and not on why many people have bought the iPhone. Hell, I only bought a phone after I learned I would be able to get on the internet with one. The iPhone was the answer to everything I wanted with features like Google Maps. I and many other photographers I know also looked at the iPhone primarily because we could keep our photos on it and show them off. Now we have our portfolio everywhere we go to show people. While on the bus, I read the internet and watch video. The question is, is it the user or the capabilities of the phone? If regular smart phone users were given an iPhone, would their usage change or not? I'm currently waiting to see what happens to my friend who ditched his Sidekick (due to recent issues) for an iPhone. He always swore all he needed was the Sidekick, but so far he really seems to like the extra features on the iPhone.
If anything will get the length of copyright reduced back to reasonable levels, it'll be creators reclaiming their IP from big business. Then it'll enter into public domain and big business will probably just settle it via trademark legislation as they divide up public domain.
Well, we do have more than two parties. There are no shortage of political parties in the US and I don't think I've ever voted for a presidential election where I didn't have at least four people to choose from. I think it has more to deal with the "winner take all" type system we have. In such a system, the parties will adopt other party platforms until you have two parties which have adopted opposite stances on the main issues. In a Parlimentary system or one where positions being voted upon are divided up between parties by percentage of votes, you usually seem to have a wider number of parties who can pander to special issues because they can still get in with a lower percentage of votes.
A benefit and problem with the "two party system" is that when one wins, it tends to have a majority and a "mandate". Good because the ruling party was put in by a majority who feel that the current government is the one they wanted. Bad because they tend to try and take their mandate and run by using their 51% and an excuse to steamroll the other 49%.
Launching from flight in the upper atmosphere is technically a good idea and the escape velocity is less, however, there are probably very few cases where it might still be benificial. Escape velocity is a function of the Earth's radius. Going up that high in the atmosphere is still only one thousandth of the Earth's radius and ends up changing the escape velocity very very little (although it is less). Even from orbit, the escape velocity is affected fairly little because low earth orbit is only a quarter more than the earth's radius (and twice what the non-Apollo manned space flight record is). Then you get back to what the other poster was stating, he wasn't talking about escape velocity but orbital velocity. That stays the same no matter where you launch from for the same orbit. All in all, what it comes down to, is that any savings for launching from flight in the upper atmosphere is probably more than offset by the cost of getting the vehicle up there and providing a sufficient launch platform in the upper atmosphere. It is usually just cheaper and easier to add some more fuel and launch from the surface for any sort of sizable vehicle.
Whining about walking half a block. No wonder that not only does everybody think Americans are fat and lazy but that we really are. Come on, it's just a few parking spots well within sight of your car. If you have trouble walking that far and back, you really have no business even leaving your assisted care facility that you must live in.
Anyway, Seattle has the same ones that Portland has and they're great. Get a sticker to put on your car that can be paid with a card if you don't have tons of change. Works for the time you buy anywhere in the city. I can buy one sticker and be good for an afternoon of running errands. If the meter by my car is broke, I can just walk to the next one and still pay. (Jesus, an around the corner walk must make it not worth leaving the house for TFA poster. I can only wonder how they always manage to get a parking spot in front of where they want to go.)
If I was to bitch about such things, it would be because in Seattle, now that they've replaced all the old parking meters (which were usually broken and misread the time time elapsed anyway), they've started putting them in all the places that used to be free parking. It's getting harder and harder to find a spot thats not metered. Since I live in the older part of town (Capitol Hill) near downtown, street parking near my apartment which was hard enough to come by in a neighborhood where lots of buildings predate the common use of the car is now disappearing all together.
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Fuck that. Load the B-52s, all of them, with live hogs and carpet bomb Mecca. Then let them know next islamic inspired/claim or suspected terror attack anywhere that harms 1 US citizen will result in the nuclear annihilation of Mecca. See the towel heads pray to the big radioactive hole in the ground.
Ok, your solution targets not only the wrong country, but the wrong sect of Islam and does nothing to the Iranians except give them major status with aligning all other Islamic nations against us after the main person standing in their way is nuked. Essentially, you've come up with a plan similar to threatening the Southern Baptist fundamentalists by nuking the Vatican or Jerusalem. For a follow up, you could fight socialism by banning all social networking sites like Facebook too.
I've found it depends on your target demographic. If you are looking at business people, IE6 is still in the ballgame. Offices are still lagging behind in their conversion to modern browsers. This is probably because the IT staff just doesn't care.
No, I can tell you the IT staff probably does care. Do you have any idea how much work goes into making sure that any new hardware can still run XP and IE6 alone? Then we actually have to install it, make images, and support it. It would be much easier for the IT staff to go with what is current that keep legacy programs around. Instead, it is usually driven by corporate need for IE6, usually by some application that requires it. It may be in house or it may be vendor supported but either way its probably a lot of money to upgrade. Plus, business usually just doesn't want to spend more money just to be up to date. Sure, replacing your computer once every five years sounds good, but when dealing with hundreds or thousands of users whose old computer are still working and allowing them to do their job, a yearly refresh of 20% is a lot of money that nobody wants to spend without a good reason. Many businesses are still buying computers for the first time in certain roles. They are comfortable in buying new computers to replace old ones that break, but they aren't in the business practice of replacing computers that are currently working just fine.
Not if they have any economic sense in their heads. Unless the aliens have some sort of magic infinite energy source or teleportation device, the cost of transporting an invasion fleet to another solar system would be orders of magnitude higher than the value of anything they could possibly gain from Earth. And if they do have an infinite energy source or teleportation device, then they could use those inventions to provide for their needs directly, without leaving their home.
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
I'm sure the Native Americans could have made a similar arguement about the ridiculousness of and invasion fleet rowing their canoes across the Atlantic to attack them. That's the thing about future technology, you really aren't sure what it is capable of. We really don't know much about the universe we live in. What we normally think of as the universe in matter and energy is less than 5% of what's there. The rest we can barely even detect let alone determine what it is and what physics it operates under. For even all our talk about wormholes, hyperspace, Alcubierre drives, we're probably really just a bunch of savages trying to determine how lash our canoes together to make a jumbojet when talking about future tech. The only real thing that our current physics tells us is that they cannot accelerate through the speed of light, and that the minimum energy to reach here is the difference in potential energies between their starting and ending locations. If they're coming from the galactic rim towards the core, it could be a free ride if they do develop some sort of teleportation.
As to why they might decide to invade us. Who knows? They're alien. Their reasoning and decision making process might not even make sense to us. A planet with an atmosphere in a nice liquid water zone around a star may be enough of a reason. If compatible, it certainly make for a cheap living space. Much cheaper than trying to build enough space ships to house as many people as could live on a planet. There are also cultural, religious, and aesthetic reason they might decide to invade. Hell, they might just want to open up markets and engage us as equal trade partners. That alone would probably cause enough change to be equivilant to invading.
Why? Seriously, I would like to know. What would you use it for? A very large music player? A web browser that has no keyboard and likely is only useable in your house where you (presumably) have a desktop/laptop. Movies might be a good idea for it... I really don't know what this is supposed to be used for.
No, it's a web browser with no keyboard that can be used on a bus, train, plane, coffee shop, or at work. It's small and light enough that although it's too big to carry around in your pocket, it will fit in your hand or book bag without taking up too much weight or space. iPhone is fine but it really is too small for viewing and interacting with many web pages that don't have a mobile version. Carrying around a laptop all the time is just a recipe for a tired shoulder. Then, I'm betting the killer app is movies. I'd be surprised if the demonstration at it's announcement doesn't include NetFlix Play on Demand movies. Add in a book reader too. Sure, it might not be as good as a Kindle for long term reading of novels, but I bet it will be good enough for most people. I'm also hoping for some sort of electronic magazine service. None of those may not be it, but I bet that when they do display it, there will be some killer app that Apple will have also built for it.
How long will it take before Dell, HP and the like copy this tablet innovation?
Last Wednesday. HP revealed their new slate computer and had Ballmer present it for the keynote at CES in Las Vegas. MS and HP have presented tablets every year it seems like, but this is the first time they have really presented a slate computer as the showcase. I think they miss the point though. Their OS is basically Win7 running with a touch screen. I don't think it will fly any higher than previous tablets which is to say a few niche corporate jobs and a few interested users.
I think Apple will do something besides just present a slate computer running OS X and say here you go. My guess is for basically a larger iPod touch and probably running a similar OS and UI. Rather than a full computer replacement, I think it will be more of a video and book reader. Besides the App store, I bet there are neat new killer apps, probably with Netflix and Google doing easy video and book downloads with an interface built for the UI. With all the talk of being an electronic magazine reader instead of books (probably due to the lack of epaper), I also wouldn't be surprised if they also launched some sort of electronic magazine subscription and presentation service. That's something I've been waiting for, being able to get my magazine subscriptions in a nice and readable electronic form which is a problem with hardware as much as software. It won't replace your phone, or your laptop, but it might make a good substitution for your laptop on trips as something to take, broswe the web, read, play games, and download photos to. If it does allow you to install regular OS X apps too such as MS Office or Aperture, it would really fill in that roll.
I, for one, could hardly care less about an Apple tablet.
Now let's see if anybody bothers to mod you up.
If Apple hasn't even announced the damned thing yet, then why are we calling it the "iSlate"? Has slashdot really sunken so far as to making up product names for products that don't even exist? What is wrong with just saying "speculated Apple tablet"?
Because Apple has trademarked the name "iSlate". They did this through a dummy company they set up. They also aquired "islate.com". They may not end up using it but they have shown interest enough to pay money to make it theirs. This is BTW the same thing they did when reserving the name "iPhone". If nothing else, to give a name in the rumors that such trademarks create.
That's quite inaccurate. Tank and Damage Dealer are the same close-range combat class, while ranged combat is missing from the list.
Nope. A Rogue can DPS as melee, but can't tank as they don't really have the armor or hit points let alone the aggro gaining abilities. Likewise, my pet as a hunter can tank but doesn't do nearly as much damage as a Melee DPSer should. Sure, it does some damage, but not as much as when I run up and hit stuff in melee too. It does have the ability to hold aggro and absorb the damage, allowing me to do the DPS.
What do you mean slightly? You can purchase tier 9 items for every slot of your character with badges.
Even though you can get badges, you still have to grind the same dungeons to get enough badges for all your gear. I think he is looking for a situation where you are able to get all your gear without having to duplicate runs on instances.
Well, it typically means that one bad file does not screw the entire computer. I haven't had issues with any OSX prefs becoming corrupted, but if it is similar to Mac OS 7-9, if you delete the corrupted file, the program in questions sees that there is no file and simply creates a new fresh one. You could go into your old MacOS Prefs folder and delete everything. The Mac would work just fine* and if any corruption in those files was causing problems, it would be gone. Sure everything was reset to defaults, but changing those is usually a minor issue. Let's see you go to the Window's registry and delete everything and continue working.
*Not quote true. Some 3rd party apps used the pref file to store registration keys so you'd have to enter them in again, or back them up because the key was specific to a random number that was created at the time of creation of the pref file.
We've been down this way back during the star wars days and trying to shoot down missiles. Any sort of energy that is released in the term of a second or so is useless against anything but stationary targets where you can assume you will hit the same point for that entire second. Bullets on the other hand expend their energy in a range of ten thousandths of a second. Until lasers or other beam weapons can deliver enough energy in a short enough amount of time similar to a bullet or supersonic missile, they simply will not make good weapons. Just make your missiles spin and any energy hitting them will be over a very large area. Similarly, the energy given for a 9mm hitting a human target that is moving around will be affected less than the firer of a 9mm who will probably absorb that energy over a shorter time and less area due to recoil.
The moon is the answer for all our future resource-problems..
You were probably going for a +5 Funny, but in case you weren't, there are various issues with that solution. First being that even if the moon were made of uranium (or oil), it would probably be too expensive to ship it in and out of our respective gravity wells to earth. Second, the moon seems to be pretty much mostly a large non-metallic mantel with a small non-active metallic core. Chances are that the moon simply isn't nearly mineral rich as the earth. Three, the moon is a really harsh environment, especially for the machinery that we would need to mine anything. Without weathering, every little bit of dust is a sharp jagged piece of sand paper that will wear down equipment fairly fast.
All in all, the moon probably isn't a good source of materials, even water. For energy, we'd be better harvesting solar energy in orbit and beaming it back to earth. For materials, especially metallic elements such as uranium, we'd be better off mining asteroids.
I suspect that his 24" iMac will play the games just fine. The actual problem is that they wanted to turn it into a "tv/media center" and it would not output with the resolution that he wanted. He then wanted to change the video card bur couldn't because he bought a model with an integrated video card and no expansion ports because the design criteria gave those up for a smaller all-in-one design. He would have had the same issue if he had bought an HP Touchsmart 9000 series or many other WinTel all-in-one device.
He is fuming with Apple because he would really like to play a few modern games but the video card of this model cannot be upgraded. (He didn't research that possibility as he never thought it possible to get a desktop system for 2500 Euros with a crappy portable MXM video without the option to upgrade.)
*DING* Your friend didn't do research and ended up buying the wrong thing for what they wanted. Then they had to go and spend all that money to do it again to do exactly what they wanted. Now he's pissed at the maker of the first item who listed the specs for him to check. I bet he checked the specs the second time around, or are they happy with WinTel because they could just buy random off the shelf components and combine them to a machine that worked for them by default?
Since this is /.
Car Analogy:
This is like a person buying an off road kitted Unimog and then being upset that they can't get above 55mph when on the highway for long road trips. Then going out and buying a fast car and being pissed at the Unimog makers because it doesn't do what it wasn't built to do.
The exposure rate is thought to have been approximately 0.005 Gy to 0.058 Gy per second. If children tried on several pairs of shoes per visit it was posited that they could be exposed to as much as 0.1 Gy to 1.16 Gy. In fact, experiments indicated that radiation could exceed 1 microGy per hour as far as 10 feet away from the machine.
To put this into context, the Gy (gray), is the amount of absorbed radiation. One gray is typically the point where physical effects are felt, usually in a burn to the skin. 5 Gy over the entire body is considered a lethal dose.
Maybe you're the same guy! Have you checked?
Doubtful. Journalists stopped most of their fact checking decades ago.
Without commenting on the validity of the analogy, I for one found that as I get older I increasingly realize my parents were usually right.
I on the other hand, often find that my parents were very often wrong. They meant well, and their advise was in my best interest, but in many cases, while it would have been the correct advise for them while they were growing up, it simply did not apply my experiences twenty years later because conditions had changed. One case being getting a job. My father was a company man whose advise was for me to get into a company, give them loyalty and work for them for the rest of my life like he did. Needless to say, this did not reflect the job situation I found myself in, especially in the computer industry during the dot-boom and dot-bust. He also found out about the new reality when his company threatened to outsource his department for the last five years he was working there and finally did but luckily close enough to his retirement that he could get a nice package. I won't even go into when he yelled at me for not quitting my cushy summer 9-5 pizza job to instead go work for McDonald's because he thought that was a respectable company.
Of course, I was the good kid that always did what my parents told me to usually. However, looking back, there are lots of times I think I should have been more rebelious and realize that their advise wasn't the best and should have done what I wanted. Some was stuff like my career, but also, I should have skipped more high school, partied more, and otherwise did more of the things other kids were doing rather than be a good kid. Experienced missed.
Well, just because they're an 'object of lust' doesn't mean they'll be a good lay, or that you'll ever want to see them again after the first night.
I can't dispute you on usage, and not on why many people have bought the iPhone. Hell, I only bought a phone after I learned I would be able to get on the internet with one. The iPhone was the answer to everything I wanted with features like Google Maps. I and many other photographers I know also looked at the iPhone primarily because we could keep our photos on it and show them off. Now we have our portfolio everywhere we go to show people. While on the bus, I read the internet and watch video. The question is, is it the user or the capabilities of the phone? If regular smart phone users were given an iPhone, would their usage change or not? I'm currently waiting to see what happens to my friend who ditched his Sidekick (due to recent issues) for an iPhone. He always swore all he needed was the Sidekick, but so far he really seems to like the extra features on the iPhone.
If anything will get the length of copyright reduced back to reasonable levels, it'll be creators reclaiming their IP from big business. Then it'll enter into public domain and big business will probably just settle it via trademark legislation as they divide up public domain.
Well, we do have more than two parties. There are no shortage of political parties in the US and I don't think I've ever voted for a presidential election where I didn't have at least four people to choose from. I think it has more to deal with the "winner take all" type system we have. In such a system, the parties will adopt other party platforms until you have two parties which have adopted opposite stances on the main issues. In a Parlimentary system or one where positions being voted upon are divided up between parties by percentage of votes, you usually seem to have a wider number of parties who can pander to special issues because they can still get in with a lower percentage of votes.
A benefit and problem with the "two party system" is that when one wins, it tends to have a majority and a "mandate". Good because the ruling party was put in by a majority who feel that the current government is the one they wanted. Bad because they tend to try and take their mandate and run by using their 51% and an excuse to steamroll the other 49%.
Launching from flight in the upper atmosphere is technically a good idea and the escape velocity is less, however, there are probably very few cases where it might still be benificial. Escape velocity is a function of the Earth's radius. Going up that high in the atmosphere is still only one thousandth of the Earth's radius and ends up changing the escape velocity very very little (although it is less). Even from orbit, the escape velocity is affected fairly little because low earth orbit is only a quarter more than the earth's radius (and twice what the non-Apollo manned space flight record is). Then you get back to what the other poster was stating, he wasn't talking about escape velocity but orbital velocity. That stays the same no matter where you launch from for the same orbit. All in all, what it comes down to, is that any savings for launching from flight in the upper atmosphere is probably more than offset by the cost of getting the vehicle up there and providing a sufficient launch platform in the upper atmosphere. It is usually just cheaper and easier to add some more fuel and launch from the surface for any sort of sizable vehicle.
There are no good guys in politics. They merely use those labels to cut down the number of people yelling at them by half.
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Whining about walking half a block. No wonder that not only does everybody think Americans are fat and lazy but that we really are. Come on, it's just a few parking spots well within sight of your car. If you have trouble walking that far and back, you really have no business even leaving your assisted care facility that you must live in.
Anyway, Seattle has the same ones that Portland has and they're great. Get a sticker to put on your car that can be paid with a card if you don't have tons of change. Works for the time you buy anywhere in the city. I can buy one sticker and be good for an afternoon of running errands. If the meter by my car is broke, I can just walk to the next one and still pay. (Jesus, an around the corner walk must make it not worth leaving the house for TFA poster. I can only wonder how they always manage to get a parking spot in front of where they want to go.)
If I was to bitch about such things, it would be because in Seattle, now that they've replaced all the old parking meters (which were usually broken and misread the time time elapsed anyway), they've started putting them in all the places that used to be free parking. It's getting harder and harder to find a spot thats not metered. Since I live in the older part of town (Capitol Hill) near downtown, street parking near my apartment which was hard enough to come by in a neighborhood where lots of buildings predate the common use of the car is now disappearing all together.